a thought

I have this rather weird belief that intelligence arises out of complexity, which leads me to wonder about things like societies, and whole ecosystems, and whether their complexity leads to intelligence. Not, perhaps, an intelligence such as humans display, but some sort of awareness and ability to analyze situations and create outcomes. Which then leads me to wonder if there is perhaps a reason that America has been in decline since the eighties or so, beyond our own short-sighted stupidity. That perhaps America will no longer be in a position to "lead" the world before it is much too late to make a necessary change to preserve some semblance of normality for the planet and the life on it.

On that note, peak oil.